FRIDAY LIVE: Paul McCartney & Wings, May 3, 1976, Fort Worth, Texas

Paul McCartney & Wings were fresh off a break during their massive Wings Over the World Tour when they came to Texas.

The album "Wings at the Speed of Sound," which contains the hits "Let 'Em In," "Silly Love Songs" and "Sally G," had just come out about a month before the band played Fort Worth.

Luckily, someone in the audience made a very good, especially for 1976, recording of this superb show in Fort Worth.

The tour would be officially documented with the 1977 mega-hit triple album "Wings Over America."

Artist: Paul McCartney & Wings
Date: May 3, 1976
Location: Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas
Lineup: Paul McCartney (bass guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, lead vocals), Linda McCartney (keyboards, percussion, piano, vocals), Denny Laine (guitars, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, percussion, harmonica, vocals, lead vocals on "Spirits of Ancient Egypt," "Picasso's Last Words," "Richard Cory" and "Time to Hide"), Jimmy McCulloch (guitars, bass guitar, vocals, lead vocals on "Medicine Jar"), Joe English (drums, percussion, vocals), Tony Dorsey (trombone, percussion), Howie Casey (saxophone, percussion), Steve Howard (trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion),
Thaddeus Richard (saxophone, clarinet, flute, percussion).

Setlist: 1. Venus and Mars/Rockshow/Jet
2. Let Me Roll It
3. Spirits of Ancient Egypt
4. Medicine Jar
5. Maybe I'm Amazed
6. Call Me Back Again
7. Lady Madonna
8. The Long and Winding Road
9. Live and Let Die
10. Picasso's Last Words
11. Richard Cory
12. Bluebird
13. I've Just Seen a Face
14. Blackbird
15. Yesterday
16. You Gave Me the Answer
17. Magneto and Titanium Man
18. My Love
19. Listen to What the Man Said
20. Let Me In
21. Time to Hide
22. Silly Love Songs
23. Beware My Love
24. Band introductions
25. Letting Go
26. Band on the Run
27. Hi, Hi, Hi
28. Soily

Top 10 songs for Snooty the Manatee; Bradenton mascot has big birthday bash this weekend

Ah, Snooty.

The world's oldest manatee on record and one of Bradenton's most famous celebrities.

He turns 64 with a birthday bash Saturday at the South Florida Museum-Parker Manatee Aquarium.

Here some songs for the county's wonderfully rotund, namesake sea cow. 

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1. "When I'm Sixty-Four," The Beatles
2. "As Good As I Once Was," Toby Keith
3. "Growing Older But Not Up," Jimmy Buffet
4. "Still Crazy After All These Years," Paul Simon
5. "Touch of Grey," Grateful Dead
6. "Golden Years," David Bowie
7.  "Fat Man in the Bathtub," Little Feat
8.  "Forever Young," Bob Dylan
9.  "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy," Howlin' Wolf
10. "Young at Heart," Frank Sinatra

Snooty the manatee birthday party at South Florida Museum in Bradenton

Much more to do in Manatee and Sarasota counties in Weekend.


—Photo of Snooty the Manatee lifting his head out the water at the South Florida Museum-Parker Manatee Aquarium. GRANT JEFFERIES/Bradenton Herald GJEFFERIES@BRADENTON.COM

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The Who announce U.S. tour; band visits Orlando in November

The Who's lone original members, chief songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Pete Townshend and lead singer Roger Daltrey, are taking "Quadrophenia" and other favorites from the band's rich past on the road this fall.

The U.S. tour will follow a performance at the Olympic Games in London.

Townshend and Daltrey made the announcement Wednesday during an online video conference.

The Who's classic 1973 album "Quadrophenia" will be played in its entirety.

The tour kicks off in Sunrise on Nov. 1 and then visits the Amway Center in Orlando Nov. 3, a Saturday, before heading north through Georgia.

American Express presale for the U.S. dates runs July 23-26 and July 23-25 in Canada before the general public on sale 10 a.m. July 27.

Tickets for the tour will be available at www.aeglive.com

It will be The Who's first North American tour in four years. The band played a rescheduled date at Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa in 2007, after a cancellation during the first song.   

Townshend on “Quadrophenia”

Why do you think the music, the themes of “Quadrophenia”–both the album and film adaptation–resonate so strongly today? 

In 1972 I was twenty-eight, writing about London and Brighton in 1963 and 1964 when the band was just starting. I was still young enough to remember how it felt to be sixteen or seventeen, and at war with my parents, bosses and authority. I could still remember that feeling of struggling to fit in, something that happened to me when I was even younger, around fourteen, and everyone around me seemed to have got their lives on track. This is such a universal experience for young people that it has echoed. 

Read more of the interview/official press release.

Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/07/18/4118839/the-who-plan-us-tour-talk-olympics.html#storylink=misearch#storylink=cpy

—Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who are shown (top) during their performance at the Hyde Park Music Festival, in London in this July 2, 2006 file photo. MAX NASH, FILE — AP Photo

New Bob Dylan album 'Tempest': release date and track listing

After more than a month of rumors, Columbia Records announced today that Bob Dylan’s new studio album, "Tempest," will be released on September 11.

It features 10 new and original Dylan songs.

The release of "Tempest" coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the artist’s self-titled debut album, which was released by Columbia in 1962.

"Tempest" is available for pre-order now on iTunes and Amazon. The new album, produced by Jack Frost (aka Dylan), is the 35thth studio set from the artist who was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor.


"Tempest" track listing (via iTunes):


1. Duquesne Whistle
Possible story behind the song: "Duquesne is a little Pennsylvania steel town, twelve miles up the Monongahela River from Pittsburgh. For two years its 21,000 inhabitants watched the tires die in the blast furnaces one by one. Then for two more years the furnaces were cold. Duquesne called it Depression. One day last week, Duquesne whistles shrieked, Duquesne bells clanged. Followed by the city council and most of the leading businessmen. Mayor Crawford marched into the local works of Carnegie Steel Co., picked up a long iron blow pipe, thrust the red-hot tip through a hole in a furnace, igniting..."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882175,00.html#ixzz20uWsZRhR

2. Soon After Midnight
3. Narrow Way
4. Long and Wasted Years
5. Pay in Blood
6. Scarlet Town
7. Early Roman Kings
8. Tin Angel
9. Tempest
10. Roll on John

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Top 10: Rolling Stones albums

The Rolling Stones celebrated the 50th anniversary of their first official gig last week, prompting me to write this Sunday column about how the album 'Steel Wheels' saved the group.

I wrote while "Steel Wheels" might be the most important LP in regard to the group's survival, the Stones have issued at least a dozen better studio albums over the years.

Here are my favorites.

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1. "Sticky Fingers" (1971)
Key tracks: "Can't You Hear me Knocking," "Dead Flowers," "Wild Horses"

2. "Exile on Main St." (1972)
Key tracks: ""Rocks Off," "Happy," "Tumbling Dice"

3. "Let it Bleed" (1969)
Key tracks: "Gimme Shelter," "Monkey Man," "You Can't Always Get What You Want"

4. "Beggars Banquet" (1968)
Key tracks:  "Sympathy for the Devil," "No Expectations," "Street Fighting Man"

5. "Aftermath" (1966)
Key tracks: "I Am Waiting," "Paint it Black," "Under My Thumb"

6. "Some Girls" (1978) Key tracks: "Before They Make me Run," "Beast of Burden," "Some Girls"

7. "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll" (1974)
Key tracks: "If You Can't Rock Me," "Fingerprint File," "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)"

8. "Goats Head Soup" (1973)
Key tracks: "Star Star," "Silver Train," "Angie"

9. "Tattoo You" (1981)
Key tracks: "Waiting on a Friend," "Start Me Up," "Little T & A"

10. "Between the Buttons" (1967)
Key tracks: "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Connection," "Ruby Tuesday"

Bonus: "'Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!' The Rolling Stones in Concert" (1970)  is my favorite official live Stones album (key tracks: "Stray Cat Blues," "Jumpin' Jack Flash,""Carol.") Actually, it's the only live Stones album really worth owning. Except, it's not really live. Lots of overdubs. That's why I prefer the bootlegs, especially from that killer 1969 tour.

Top 10 Keith Richards songs 



—Photo from inside of "Sticky Fingers" album of (from left) Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman.

FRIDAY LIVE: Led Zeppelin, Feb. 14, 1975, Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York

Led Zeppelin's North American Tour of 1975 might not rank as the band's best.

But this soundboard recording of a Valentine's Day show on Long Island proves the group could still throw a killer party marked by superb musicianship.

The setlist draws pretty much equally from the band's first six albums including "Physical Graffiti," which wouldn't be released until 10 days later. 

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Date: Feb. 14, 1975
Location: Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, New York
Lineup: Jimmy Page (guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bassist/keyboardist), John Bonham (drums).
Setlist: 1. Rock And Roll
2. Sick Again
3. Over The Hills And Far Away
4. In My Time Of Dying
5. Since I've Been Loving You
6. The Song Remains The Same
7. The Rain Song
8. Kashmir
9. No Quarter
10. Trampled Underfoot
11. Moby Dick
12. Dazed And Confused
13. Stairway To Heaven
14. Whole Lotta Love
15. Black Dog
16. Heartbreaker




—Photo of Led Zeppelin on stage in Chicago, January 1975, from Wikipedia.

Single tickets on sale for Manatee Players of Bradenton

It sure doesn't feel like "season" but the Manatee Players 2012-13 scheduled starts next month with single tickets for most of the musicals going on sale Monday (July 16).

Tickets are available next week for "Legally Blonde" (Aug. 16-Sept. 2), “Evita” (Sept. 20-Oct. 7), “Pump Boys and the Dinettes” (Oct. 25-Nov. 11), “Plaid Tidings” (Nov. 28-Dec. 16) and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (Feb. 21-March 10, 2013).

Single ticket sales for “Miss Saigon” (March 28-April 14, 2013) and “Fiddler on the Roof” (May 2-19, 2013) will be announced at a future date.

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Tickets are $26 for adults, $15 for teachers with a valid ID and $13 for students with a valid ID. Season tickets are still available as well. The box office is open Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and one hour before curtain for each performance. The Manatee Players are located at 102 Old Main Street in downtown Bradenton. Tickets can be purchased by calling the box office at 941-748-5875 or online at http://www.manateeplayers.com.

Manatee Players add 'Legally Blonde,' 'Anything Goes' to 2012-13 season

Manatee Players add 'Legally Blonde,' 'Anything Goes' to 2012-13 season